A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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